12 August 2015

Record of meeting 12 August 2015


The writers

Wendy, David R, Helene, Terry, Lynn, Geoff, Cath, Elizabeth


The words

Salient = noticeable

Ambulant = able to walk

Expurgate = remove parts

Immure = imprisoned or fixed in beliefs

Linguist = person skilled in foreign languages

Cephalopod = molluscs with  tentacle heads

Dialogue = discussion or conversation between

Provenance = a place of origin, record of ownership

The Writing from words of the day

The writers ambulated through the salient words and created the linguistic masterpieces of - Greek lunch, The poli-linguist, The script, My nose, In the small tank, Next time, Memory and Nuclear weapons.

The Reading of homework

Five diligent writers read out their homework on the topics - Talk about it later; Bean stalk talk; What would Ms Marple think? A bank in Bridge Street; and Golden years.

The Exercise 

We selected five things to take on a desert island and wrote a story about our experience on the island. 

We created a range of a fantasy stories set on the island – The floating mattress and the lazy fish, Careless Cate, I sprayed my hair for George Clooney, Survival till the ferry arrives, Pizza and Liza, We will soon know and Plenty of water.


The Homework

Choose a book, go to page 58, and select the first complete sentence to start your story/poem. 









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